This book offers an overview of environmental law from both an international and regional perspective, focusing on global issues while at the same time offering uniquely African insights. The book addresses environmental issues, principles, and policies from the standpoints of law and management.
There is a growing need for books on environmental law that integrate environmental issues, principles and policies in a single source to guide practitioners in the fields of environmental studies and environmental law. This book covers the corresponding principles, theories, procedural rights, international and regional strategies, liabilities and remedies for environmental damage, including in/to the marine environment. Topics addressed include atmospheric pollution, water pollution, marine pollution, land use, and waste management.
Given its scope, the book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of environmental studies and environmental law, corporations, policymakers, judges, students, and all others who are concerned with environmental issues, principles, policies and the law.
